On Sunday at the LIV Golf Michigan Team Championship, it added up for the biggest win by their Legion XIII team since joining the league last year as its first expansion team.
It’s the second playoff hole. Rahm and Hatton are in a battle against the Crushers GC duo of Bryson DeChambeau and Paul Casey. Lowest aggregate score wins the league’s most prestigious team trophy. All four players have found the fairway at the 18th hole at The Cardinal at Saint John’s.
Hatton has a wedge fom 70 yards. Not only must he carry the bunker guarding the front left of the green, he wants to hit the shot deep enough so that it spins back toward the pin.
His shot is perfect. It hits pin high, bounces a few feet, then spins back to essentially tap-in birdie range.
Rahm has a shot from 54 yards. His shot is more succinct – less spin but still effective. Another short birdie putt.
Meanwhile, Casey’s wedge shot doesn’t stay on the top plateau, while DeChambeau – in a rare poor result on an otherwise impressive day in which he shot a bogey-free 62 – sees his wedge shot come up short and find the rough between the bunker and the green.
It was a mere formality after that. Both Legion XIII players birdied. Both Crushers GC players parred. Playoff over. Legion XIII are champions.
